I usually enjoy looking at Alan’s Sepia Saturday pictures and taking my lead from his photo, but I’m going my own way this week. I can’t resist this pic of my Dad as a wee lad in his kilt, attending a family wedding in around 1942. He looks like he’s behaving well, but Under Pressure. Auntie, however, appears to have different ideas. She’s still a bit naughty nowadays.

Grandad seems happy to be Brylcreemed in the extreme, and Granny is obviously very fond of her dead fox. Auntie’s got her spotless white socks on but check out Dad’s knobbly boy-knees 🙂

Oh, happy days…. Check out other similar posts and why not join in? It’s fun and easy – Alan says:

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn’t have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

Oh this is a gorgeous photo! Your Dad doesn’t look very impressed …either he wasn’t so keen on the kilt or he just didn’t enjoy having his photo taken. I love the sound of your aunt, she sounds such great fun!

This is perfect for SS. I love the family stores. I see you are a professional genealogist. I have worked for years on mine, but I am no pro. It can be addicting. Great post. Your dad’s picture is priceless.
QMM

Funny, but your father knobby knees were the first details I noticed! LOL Wonder what Auntie and Granny are looking at off to the side? Grandad is the only one looking straight at the camera and he looks very spiffy to me. Great photo!

Thanks for the comments, folks 🙂 It’s nice to know someone’s reading! Two furs does seem a bit pretentious, and looking at Auntie, she does look a bit like a young Elizabeth. Maybe it’s the coat that does it. Genealogy is definitely addictive, QMM, as you have found out! Join in with a SS Susan – it’s fun. Howard, I wondered the same thing – where’s his sporran? Maybe they just replaced his trousers with a kilt, and I suppose buying a sporran during wartime might have been too expensive. Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it 🙂 Jo

Just this week I was loaned a box of family photos, many of them taken of the relatives that stayed in Scotland instead of moving to California. Among the photos were several of relatives in kilts which really made me smile. And then I found a newspaper clipping showing a group of men in 1875 gathered at what was known as the Cross. One of the men in the shot is my great great grandfather standing in nearly the same spot I stood one hundred years later to take a photo of the infamous Cross my father had grown up hearing about. It was such a disappointment when finally in Scotland to find out if was just an intersection and not some sort of statue. But oh my the shivers I got the other night when I for the first time saw a photo of my relative knowing I’d walked in his footsteps 100 years before.

Lovely family photo – especially the kilt and the knobbly knees! Than you so much for your poetic offering just now. I’d have emailed you direct, if you’d enabled your address, so it showed as soon as my inbox notified me of your comment!